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“I do.” “I do.” “And I do, too.”
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deacon greg kandra
Well, here’s a new one. According to the New York Times, (in an op-ed piece by Elizabeth Marquardt, a vice president of the Institute for American Values, and only available via TimeSelect) we need to brace ourselves for the coming debate about group-marriage: On April 30, a state Superior Court panel ruled that a child…
Our middle-aged sisters
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deacon greg kandra
It’s happening in the priesthood — and, evidently, in the sisterhood, too: more and more of those entering religious life, feeling the pull of a vocation, are older. A growing number of the vocations are coming, not from kids in their teens and 20s, but middle aged men and women in their 40s and 50s.…
Immaculate Mary, your praises we sing
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deacon greg kandra
I’ve been meaning to post this for a few days, and now I’m finally getting around to it: a nugget from Deacon Tony on a little “help wanted” notice that the Church is posting to anyone, anywhere. They’re looking for priests to come to Lourdes for the big 150th anniversary blowout next year: Lourdes has…
What God has joined…
By
deacon greg kandra
This morning’s Los Angeles Times has an opinion piece by Sheila Rauch Kennedy. The subject, unsurprisingly: annulments. A decade ago, the Catholic Church tried to annul my marriage. My former husband, Joseph Kennedy II, wanted to remarry and stay in the good graces of the church; to do so, he needed the ruling. Despite 12…
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